Silicon Valley Has Hit Peak Lameness

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I know you think it’s cool that your launch party is being written up in TechCrunch. But seriously, half-naked girls in silver mono-kinis dancing in front of floating arithmetic, fractions and percentage signs? Why would women want to work for this company?

When did Silicon Valley become so thin on actual technology that startups had to have “nerd” or “science”-themed parties to have cred?

P.S. In case anyone thinks Jack McKenna doesn’t know how to party, Jack McKenna thought of this post while dancing in a “rave cave” at 11 a.m. on Sunday. Because Jack McKenna rolls all weekend long. Sans fake hand and tentacle fingers.

Update: Virool’s CEO Alexander Debelov responds in a comment below. He says that Virool didn’t spend any investor money on the party, is profitable and is on a multi-million dollar annualized runrate.

[Editor’s note: In further discussions with Virool, the company asserted that 1) This was a theme party around a popular video it had helped make viral, 2) It is making more money in a day than what the party had cost, and 3) Many of its investors had attended and were pleased with the company’s progress so far. The party was also planned by a woman, and the company did not intend to demean women in any way.]

That’s great. But success shouldn’t mean throwing parties full of hired girls. Many tech companies like Facebook and Airbnb had, erm, questionable parties in their very early days, but they learned and they grew up. Virool should too.

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